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Toy with Sploggers w/ Dynamic Images
Over at my second home, I talked about how to annoy sploggers w/ a dynamic image. A dynamic image is merely any image generated programmatically at request time. So with a dynamic image, you have total control of the content that will get displayed when the url gets requested.
Typically, when a splogger copies a blog post, they often times leave all the original hyperlinks and images links intact. Sploggers are lazy folks. If they are too lazy to write their own blog post, they are usually too lazy to edit yours. So if they do hotlink to an image...
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A Blogger’s Test Drive of Word 2007 (Part 3)
Not enough cup holders and too much cheap looking plastic
Despite all the improvements, it’s not quite the ultimate blog posting machine. Word has the advantage of being the market leading word processor for the past 15 years. And for the most part, its considerable text tweaking power converts well as a blog editing tool. Seamlessly integrating with other features of Office, “good enough” blog provider support and the removal of the MSO xml namespaced crap from the final HTML markup score big points in my evaluation.
Although, Word 2007 is a stellar first effort for Microsoft in the blog text editor...
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A Blogger’s Test Drive of Word 2007 (Part 2)
Fat Tires & Big Brakes
One of the things I dislike about WordPress is that it doesn't have a table editor like SubText does. Unfortunately, even the mighty SubText can compare to Word 2007 when it comes to table editing. Let's say I'm Ardell and I want to tell the bubble people they are wrong about some random nugget of real estate information. After all, I have the multiple's database at my fingertips, so I know the facts. Let's say I'm trying to point out that Kirkland is the most affordable lakefront community along the I-405 corridor (I'm showing off...
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A Blogger’s Test Drive of Word 2007 (Part 1)
A Bold New Look
The very first thing you notice about the new Word 2007 (and it's fellow Office-mates) is it's bold new look. Like the CTS-V in photo below, it's striking. The old menus and toolbars are gone. It's been replaced by what the 'softies call the ribbon. You may not like it, but you have to admire the collective corporate guts it took to completely redesign a product family that generates over $10 billion / year in revenue.
The designers & engineers at Microsoft did this for several good reasons. The biggest reason is that customers kept asking for...
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My Blog Test Drive of Word 2007
After reading my Rain City Guide post, you just had to visit. :)
I'm just getting some gas and new tires, before I take this baby to the track! I'll be back soon.
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A Craftsman and His Tools
Mr. Swann recently talked about the tools he uses for his weblogging workflow. Since most craftsman like talking about their tools, I thought I'd let the world know what's on my hard drive these days.
It all begins with the OS, and I just started using Windows Vista. Although I respect Mac OS X a lot and admire Steve Jobs, I've never liked fruit computers since my Atari & Amiga days. I can't bring myself to love a platform with only one mouse button. I've played with Ubuntu, and it's is (by far) my favorite Linux distribution. (I run Windows...
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Doing Things The Hard Way
If I was smart, I would've taken the easy way out. However, when I finally decided on a blogging platform, I didn't pick WordPress. Essentially it boiled down to the fact, that I'm cheap and I'm lazy. I'm too cheap to pay somebody else to host it for me and I'm too lazy to install or learn PHP or MySQL.
Anyway, I had the following desires for a blogging platform
Designed for IIS / ASP.net
Database server based (SQL Server preferred)
Open source preferred
Essentially, I wanted to stick with...